The Health and Safety Commission (HSC) and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have merged to form a single national regulatory body also called th...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has warned of the dangers of allowing cranes to operate over the heads of employees. This followed the prosecution of a Liverpool-base...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued a warning about live electricity cables after a contractor, SP Power Systems, was fined £32,000 plus £15,000 in costs over a...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has this month warned businesses to make sure that workers and contractors are properly trained to carry out risk assessments and opera...
A college has been fined a total of £32,000 after failing to ensure the safety of a lecturer, who suffered severe burns when an acid mix exploded over him. Gary Baird was showered with the dangero...
Ofwat is to fine Severn Trent Water £35.8 million for deliberately providing false information and offering poor customer service.
The water industry regulator is fining the company £34.7 mi...
A careless driver who failed to drop contaminated metal into a container has landed a waste firm with a £35,000 fine.
Magistrates heard that a white liquid seeped from the heap of metal turn...
The tax councils pay to dump rubbish in landfill sites is rising sharply. The cost went up on 1 April 2008 by £8 a ton, to £32, and will rise to almost £50 a ton over the next three years.
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A firm making food flavourings has been fined £20,000 for flouting waste recycling laws, following a routine visit by Environment Agency inspectors. Under the Producer Resp...
The dirty waters of Loch Lomond are to be improved by a major investment in water quality. Scottish Water has announced they plan to spend around £2 million in reducing pollution along a key stret...
The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSE NI) is investigating an accident at a recycling centre near Enniskillen in which a man was fatally injured.
The death of a Dromore man would not have occurred if the handbrake on a forklift truck reported for repair had been adjusted to the minimum specification, Omagh Coroner's Court heard this month....
An open farm outside Belfast was closed this month amid concerns over an E.coli infection.
Five people who tested positive for the infection had recently visited the Streamvale farm. The fa...
Children as young as four across Northern Ireland are attending nursery schools containing potentially harmful asbestos. There are currently 65 primary schools, including nurseries, which have eit...
Just over a year ago on 30 April 2007, Northern Ireland followed Scotland and Wales in going smoke-free in all enclosed public places, including pubs, restaurants and workplaces. England followed...
